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June ALS Accreditation vote results
by ICANN At Large Staff June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007

Dear At-Large Community, Please find below the results for the June ALS Accreditation vote: Poll menu: ALS June 07 Report date: Fri 29 Jun 2007 11:24 UTC Should ACOULL (Association COngolaise des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres) be accredited? As at: Sat 23 Jun 2007 17:00 UTC Number of voters: 11 Ranked by votes Rank Candidate Votes % Voters 1 Yes 11 100.00 Alice Wanjira-Munyua, Izumi Aizu, Annette Muehlberg, Carlos Aguirre, Jacqueline Morris, Jose Ovidio Salgueiro, Cheryl Langdon-orr, Hawa Diakite, Mohamed El Bashir, Sebastien Bachollet, Veronica Cretu 2 No 0 0.00 2 Abstain 0 0.00 Did not vote: Siavash Shashahani, Alan Greenberg, Wendy Seltzer Should Communautique be accredited? As at: Sat 23 Jun 2007 17:00 UTC Number of voters: 10 Ranked by votes Rank Candidate Votes % Voters 1 Yes 9 90.00 Alice Wanjira-Munyua, Izumi Aizu, Carlos Aguirre, Jacqueline Morris, Cheryl Langdon-orr, Hawa Diakite, Mohamed El Bashir, Sebastien Bachollet, Veronica Cretu 2 No 1 10.00 Jose Ovidio Salgueiro 3 Abstain 0 0.00 Did not vote: Siavash Shashahani, Alan Greenberg, Wendy Seltzer, Annette Muehlberg Should AGEIA DENSI BRASIL (Association for Studies and Academic Research in Law, Economic and Business in Brazil's Information Society) be accredited? As at: Sat 23 Jun 2007 17:00 UTC Number of voters: 11 Ranked by votes Rank Candidate Votes % Voters 1 Yes 11 100.00 Alice Wanjira-Munyua, Izumi Aizu, Annette Muehlberg, Carlos Aguirre, Jacqueline Morris, Jose Ovidio Salgueiro, Cheryl Langdon-orr, Hawa Diakite, Mohamed El Bashir, SÃ©bastien Bachollet, Veronica Cretu 2 No 0 0.00 2 Abstain 0 0.00 Did not vote: Siavash Shashahani, Alan Greenberg, Wendy Seltzer -- Regards, ICANN At-Large Staff Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 email: staff(a)alac.icann.org

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Creation of Election Rules Working Group
by Robert Guerra June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007

An ad hoc ALAC Election Rules Working Group has been created to help define the election rules for selecting the Board liaison. The working group is seeking input , specifically a text for a recommended procedure. Wiki - with details is available at the following URL: https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?election_rules_working_group Members: * Cheryl Langdon-Orr (Asia Pacific) * Robert Guerra (North America) * Veronica Cretu (Europe) Current text is as follows: Where there are more than two candidates, I recommend single transferrable vote / instant runoff, with the election decided by simple majority of the votes cast: Each voter ranks the candidates 1-N #1 votes are tabulated; If one candidate has a majority, that candidate wins. If not, The candidate with fewest #1 votes is dropped from the list and his/ her next (#2) votes are allocated to the remaining candidates; The process continues until one candidate has a simple majority of the votes. That candidate is the winner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote

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Resolutions from today's Board meeting
by Vittorio Bertola June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007

All, below you can find some of the resolutions that were just passed by the Board. Specifically, there is further work for us to do - we are now being explicitly asked: - to send proposals for RAA revisions (actually, I had it broadened to "related policies" and the accreditation process as well), and to comment again on the draft proposal of the new contract; - to elaborate on answers to the ccNSO/GAC questions on ccTLD IDNs. Both things weren't in the initial drafts, and I suggest that you read the transcript of the discussion on the resolution on RAA revisions, including the discussion on our proposed amendment, to understand the resistence by some constituencies that you have to work with. I'd be happy to do a deeper debriefing with behind-the-scenes details to the people who are here (we used to have debriefing ALAC meetings at Friday lunch / early afternoon years ago, I think we should start again). Ciao, ===== Regional At-Large Organization for North America Whereas, the ICANN Bylaws, Article XI, Section 2, Part 4, provide a process that allows individual Internet users to participate meaningfully in the work of ICANN, as the community known as ‘At-Large’, and; Whereas, groups representing individual internet users throughout the North American (“NA”) Geographic Region have finalised work on organising themselves as a Regional At-Large Organisation (“RALO”) by creating a Memorandum of Understanding between themselves and ICANN, and; Whereas, the Parties to the MoU signed it at a public ceremony at the San Juan ICANN meeting, the execution of the agreement on ICANN’s part contingent upon final approval by the ICANN Board following completion of the public comment period, and; Whereas, the ICANN Board wishes to recognise and applaud the North American At-Large community in question and the achievement of this milestone; Whereas, the Board wishes to recognise with the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding and the election of two North American members of the At-Large Advisory Committee, the ALAC is no longer ‘Interim’, and the whole At-Large community is to be congratulated on an enormous amount of work; Resolved (07.___), the Board ratifies the Memorandum of Understanding with the North American At-Large Structures, on the same basis under which it was signed. Consultation on Registrar Accreditation Agreement Amendments Whereas, ICANN has received considerable comment and recommendations from registrants and others in the Internet community for improvements in ICANN contracts in order to protect the interests of registrants. Whereas, ICANN posted several recommendations in a call for major review of ICANN’s Registrar Accreditation Agreements (RAA) and the accreditation process. Whereas, community comment received since the posting tends to affirm those same areas as important and ICANN has published specific areas for amendment. Whereas, ICANN Board and staff have met with the Registrars Constituency to discuss specific recommended changes to the RAA and agreed to continue discussions to expedite the publication and consideration of proposed amendments. Whereas, it is important to implement amendments in a timely manner to avoid future harm to registrants. Resolved (07.__), the Board directs staff to solicit and consider the input of the Internet community, including the At-Large community and the GNSO constituencies, regarding proposed changes to the RAA, registrar accreditation process, and related policies. Resolved (07.__), the Board requests that staff engage with the Registrars Constituency in order to arrive at, and post for public comment, a set of proposed amendments or alternative version to the RAA, that is intended to address to the extent feasible the concerns raised by the Internet community. Resolved (07.___), that when the RAA is published for public comment, that notice be provided to allow the At-Large Advisory Committee, the GNSO, and other interested parties to review the proposed revised RAA and provide advice to the Board in its review and possible adoption of the amended or alternative RAA, and consideration of the related processes and policies. Acknowledgement of Technical Progress on IDNs Whereas, the Board expresses its gratitude to the volunteers in the technical community, including the IETF, IAB, RSSAC, and SSAC for their work related to the deployment of IDNs. Whereas, the Board recognizes the important work being done on the revision of the IDNA protocol that provides the framework for what characters can be used when registering domain names, as well as the successful results in the laboratory test conducted by Autonomica. Whereas, ICANN is preparing the near-term release of a publicly accessible facility for the evaluation of at least eleven IDN TLDs that will be provisionally entered into the root zone of the DNS and that will include second-level domains in the same languages as the TLDs, all for evaluation purpose only. Whereas, the Board recognizes that this is a significant step towards the stable deployment of IDNs. Whereas, the SSAC has undertaken a technical study to analyze stability and security issues associated with the deployment of IDNs TLDs. Whereas, the TLD registries working group has recently released IDN Guidelines revisions, and plans to continue this effort as further details of the IDNA protocol revision is being completed. Whereas, the ICANN Board remains committed to the development and deployment of IDNs that enable people who communicate and want to use domain names with characters other than a through z and zero through nine, and at the same time benefit from the promise of a single interoperable Internet. Resolved (07.___), the ICANN Board acknowledges the work performed by the members of the community working on this important topic and urges this work to continue to move forward in a manner that emphasizes the security and stability of the Internet. Resolved (07.___), the ICANN Board respectfully requests that technical volunteers continue to work closely together to complete their work revising the IDNA protocol and identifying technical requirements for IDN registrations to guide the policy making community. Resolved (07. ___), the ICANN Board requests staff to consider the resulting technical recommendations as essential for the introduction of IDN at the top-level in a manner that ensures the continued security and stability of the Internet. Acknowledgement of Policy Progress on IDNs Whereas, the Board expresses its gratitude to the ICANN community, including the GNSO, ccNSO, GAC, and ALAC for their work related to the deployment of IDNs. Whereas, the ccNSO, GNSO, GAC and ALAC are actively addressing policy aspects related to the introduction of internationalized top-level labels. Whereas, a joint effort involving the ccNSO and GAC has made considerable progress, publishing a list of issues and questions that need to be addressed in order to move forward with IDN ccTLDs associated with the ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes. Whereas, the ICANN community is discussing the details involved in using an interim approach to IDN ccTLDs associated with the ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes to meet near-term demands and to gain experience with mechanisms for selection and authorization of such TLDs that can inform a policy development process aimed at creating an overall policy. Whereas, the ICANN Board remains committed to the development and deployment of IDNs that enable people communicate and want to use domain names with characters other than a through z and zero through nine, and at the same time benefit from the promise of a single interoperable Internet. Resolved (07.___), the ICANN Board respectfully requests that that the ICANN community including the GNSO, ccNSO, GAC, and ALAC provide the Board with responses to the published list of issues and questions that need to be addressed in order to move forward with IDN ccTLDs associated with the ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes in a manner that ensures the continued security and stability of the Internet. The Board requests status reports regarding progress by the conclusion of the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles in October 2007. Resolved (07.___), the ICANN Board respectfully requests that the ICANN community including the GNSO, ccNSO, GAC, and ALAC continue to work collaboratively, taking the technical limitations and requirements into consideration, to explore both an interim and overall approach to IDN ccTLDs associated with the ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes and recommend a course of action to the Board in a timely manner. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Tomorrow's meetings
by Vittorio Bertola June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007

For those who might have missed this, the ALAC meets again tomorrow morning at 7:30am in the same room as today (Flamingo C/D). If the room will be unavailable, we'll move somewhere from there. The agenda will be the continuation of today's Q&A session with Board liaison nominees, until 8:30 at latest (when the Board meeting begins). I would suggest that ALAC members that are available continue the meeting either during or after the Board meeting, to come to conclusion on the proposed new criteria for ALS accreditation, or at least on how to finalize them asap. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------

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Board liaison - more changes
by Jacqueline A. Morris June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007

Hi With the rapid changes of the agenda here in San Juan, and the concept of unfairness to the RALOs that are not physically present in San Juan – they need to have similar access. So we will set up a teleconference that we will advertise in good time, we will have time for questions, etc. Sorry for the back and forth, but schedules are such a mess here today with all the conflicting meetings. Thanks Jacqueline No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/875 - Release Date: 6/27/2007 9:08 PM

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Re: [At-Large] At-Large IDN Policy Review - Request for you to speak
by Hong Xue June 28, 2007

June 28, 2007

I thank all the speakers who kindly joined our workshop and talked to at-large community. Although the unfortunate conflicts of schedule made us impossible have more in-depth discussions, I'm sure individual Internet user community who are thirsty for information and keen on participation would like to continue the dialogue. ALAC is forming its own IDN WG so that user community's inquires, inputs and contribution may be more effectively channeled into the ICANN IDN matrix. Thank you again and we are looking forward to welcoming all you back next time. Cordially Hong On 6/28/07, Tina Dam <tina.dam(a)icann.org> wrote: > > Dear Hong-Xue, thank you and the ALAC for having me at your meeting here > in San Juan. > > > > As a first follow up you can find IDN related information at > http://www.icann.org/topics/idn - here are all the IDN announcements as > well as an RSS feed that you can sign up to, to receive the regular > announcements. In particular, this is also where you will find the proposed > evaluation plan that I talked about. It is currently the top announcement. > As we get the translations finalized we will publish these here as well. > > > > Nick and I will stay coordinated so that I understand what additional > needs you may have from a staff side – and further please don't hesitate to > contact me for any additional questions that may arise. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Tina Dam > > Director, IDN Program > > ICANN > > > > Cell: +1-310-... > > Office: +1-310-... > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Hong Xue [mailto:hongxueipr@gmail.com ] > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:12 AM > *To:* rmohan(a)afilias.info; hotta(a)jprs.co.jp; Tina Dam > *Cc:* Jacqueline A. Morris; Nick Ashton-Hart; At-large Worldwide > *Subject:* Re: At-Large IDN Policy Review - Request for you to speak > > > > > Dear Speakers, > > > > On behalf of the at-large community, I thank all of you for kindly > accepting our invitation to speak at the ALAC Policy Priorities Workshop on > June 28. Please refer to our workshop wiki page at > https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?28_june_2007_ws for the detailed > information. You may find that we draft a couple questions to make the > discussions more focused. I'm sure the representatives from five RALOs will > have more questions. > > > > At-large community has huge interest in IDNs. We cherish the opportunity > to talk face-to-face with you regarding this cut-edge issue. Although we > will be very interested in your presentations, we do hope we could spend > more time on dialogue. > > > > Looking forward to welcoming you all > > > > Sincerely > > > > Hong > > ALAC IDN Liaison > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 6/21/07, *Nick Ashton-Hart* <nashton(a)consensus.pro> wrote: > > Dear Mr. Modam: > > > > > The At-Large community is discussing IDNs in some depth at a policy > briefing on Thursday, at 1400 - 1450. Hong Xue has asked me to invite you to > come to speak if you are willing. > > > > > We'd be grateful for your insights - the schedule is available at: https://st.icann.org/ALAC/index.cgi?28_june_2007_ws > and is also reproduced below. If you wish to stay on afterwards and join > the discussion with the other presenters you would be most welcome! > > > > > *At-Large Policy Priorities Workshop* > > *June 28 2007, 1400 - 1600* > > *Room: Tropical A/B* > > *DRAFT AGENDA* > > 1. Adoption of the Agenda > 2. Welcome & Opening Remarks > 3. Policy Matters *(See **San Juan Documents*<https://st.icann.org/ALAC/index.cgi?san_juan_documents> > *)* > > > 1. Internationalized Domain Names (14:00-14:40pm) > > > 1. Suggested Speakers: Mr. Ram Modam (gNSO IDN WG); Mr. Hiro Hotta > (ccNSO IDN WG); and Tina Dam (ICANN IDN Director) > 2. Issues for discussion (40 minutes) > > > 1. Updates from gNSO, ccNSO and ICANN (10 minutes) > 2. How can individual users participate in IDN > policy-making? (10 minutes) > 3. How to select IDN strings and how to define > confusing similarity? (10 minutes) > 4. How to select IDN registries and other > affiliated service providers? (10 minutes) > > 2. Registrant / Registrar Relations > > 3. ICANN's Regions > > 4. Any Other Business > > 5. Adjournment (ALAC Public Session follows immediately in the same > room) > > > > -- > Regards, > > > Nick Ashton-Hart > PO Box 32160 > London N4 2XY > United Kingdom > Main Tel: +44 ...] > > USA Tel: +1 (... > > Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 > mobile: +44 (... > email: nashton(a)consensus.pro > Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype:nashtonhart > > Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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Re: [At-Large] At-Large IDN Policy Review - Request for you to speak
by Hong Xue June 28, 2007

June 28, 2007

Dear Speakers, On behalf of the at-large community, I thank all of you for kindly accepting our invitation to speak at the ALAC Policy Priorities Workshop on June 28. Please refer to our workshop wiki page at https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?28_june_2007_ws for the detailed information. You may find that we draft a couple questions to make the discussions more focused. I'm sure the representatives from five RALOs will have more questions. At-large community has huge interest in IDNs. We cherish the opportunity to talk face-to-face with you regarding this cut-edge issue. Although we will be very interested in your presentations, we do hope we could spend more time on dialogue. Looking forward to welcoming you all Sincerely Hong ALAC IDN Liaison On 6/21/07, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton(a)consensus.pro> wrote: > > Dear Mr. Modam: > > The At-Large community is discussing IDNs in some depth at a policy > briefing on Thursday, at 1400 - 1450. Hong Xue has asked me to invite you to > come to speak if you are willing. > > > We'd be grateful for your insights - the schedule is available at: > https://st.icann.org/ALAC/index.cgi?28_june_2007_ws and is also reproduced > below. If you wish to stay on afterwards and join the discussion with the > other presenters you would be most welcome! > > > > *At-Large Policy Priorities Workshop* > > *June 28 2007, 1400 - 1600* > > *Room: Tropical A/B* > > *DRAFT AGENDA* > > 1. Adoption of the Agenda > 2. Welcome & Opening Remarks > 3. Policy Matters *(See **San Juan Documents*<https://st.icann.org/ALAC/index.cgi?san_juan_documents> > *)* > 1. Internationalized Domain Names (14:00-14:40pm) > 1. Suggested Speakers: Mr. Ram Modam (gNSO IDN WG); Mr. > Hiro Hotta (ccNSO IDN WG); and Tina Dam (ICANN IDN Director) > 2. Issues for discussion (40 minutes) > 1. Updates from gNSO, ccNSO and ICANN (10 minutes) > 2. How can individual users participate in IDN > policy-making? (10 minutes) > 3. How to select IDN strings and how to define > confusing similarity? (10 minutes) > 4. How to select IDN registries and other > affiliated service providers? (10 minutes) > 2. Registrant / Registrar Relations > 3. ICANN's Regions > 4. Any Other Business > 5. Adjournment (ALAC Public Session follows immediately in the same > room) > > > -- > Regards, > > Nick Ashton-Hart > PO Box 32160 > London N4 2XY > United Kingdom > Main Tel: +44 ...] > USA Tel: +1 (... > Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 > mobile: +44 (... > email: nashton(a)consensus.pro > Win IM: ashtonhart(a)hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart(a)mac.com / Skype:nashtonhart Online > Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart > > > > > > > >

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Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] Board liaison - more changes
by Annette Muehlberg June 28, 2007

June 28, 2007

All, I am really confused about that way of shifting around our agenda. We took a decision in organising our thursday meeting, starting off with the IDN workshop - someone changed that schedule without discussion, which put us in a reall awful situation, choosing either to tell all the guests that we are dealing with a different topic or tell those people who joint our meeting -unexpected to the ALAC/RALO members and their guests- to leave. We agreed to have the presentations of the candidates for board liaison at the ALAC meeting today and I would love to listen to them today. So let us stick to the order we set up. thank you annette > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: jam(a)jacquelinemorris.com > Gesendet: 28.06.07 21:02:13 > An: <alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > CC: 'ALAC internal list' <alac-internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > Betreff: [ALAC-Internal] Board liaison - more changes > > > Hi > > > With the rapid changes of the agenda here in San Juan, and > the concept of unfairness to the RALOs that are not physically present in San > Juan they need to have similar access. > > > So we will set up a teleconference that we will advertise in > good time, we will have time for questions, etc. > > > Sorry for the back and forth, but schedules are such a mess > here today with all the conflicting meetings. > > > Thanks > > > Jacqueline > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > ALAC-Internal mailing list > ALAC-Internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-internal_atlarge-lists… > ALAC Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac > ALAC Official: http://alac.icann.org > ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org > --

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budget when
by Annette Muehlberg June 28, 2007

June 28, 2007

I checked both wikis on our workshop and our agenda but i could not find the timeframe for Doug presenting the budget procedure. best annette > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: jam(a)jacquelinemorris.com > Gesendet: 28.06.07 20:31:12 > An: "'Izumi AIZU'" <iza(a)anr.org> > CC: 'ALAC internal list' <alac-internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org>, alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > Betreff: Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] Board Lision statemetns > > IDNs for 1 - 1:30 hours. If David Archbold comes, there will be more than 1 > topic. If not, only IDNs. > Jacqueline > > -----Original Message----- > From: Izumi AIZU [mailto:iza@anr.org] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:34 PM > To: jam(a)jacquelinemorris.com > Cc: alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org; ALAC internal list > Subject: Re: [ALAC-Internal] Board Lision statemetns > > Jacqueline, > You mean Policy priorty workshop including IDN, but not limited to, > right? > > I got confused but found that is what you meant. > > Thank you and see you soon in room FlamingoC/D . > > izumi > > 2007/6/29, Jacqueline A. Morris <jam(a)jacquelinemorris.com>: > > > > > > > > > > In order to manage the recently reshuffled ICANN schedules, we will have > the > > board liaison statements at 3:30 3:45 at the end of the IDN workshop > just > > before the ALAC meeting starts. > > > > Sorry for the late notice, but the schedule today has been really flexing > > (meetings running late, panels shifting, etc) > > > > This should not affect too many of you as you were supposed to be going to > > the IDN panel anyway. > > > > Jacqueline > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/875 - Release Date: 6/27/2007 > > 9:08 PM > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ALAC-Internal mailing list > > ALAC-Internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > > > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-internal_atlarge-lists. > icann.org > > > > ALAC Wiki: http://st.icann.org/alac > > ALAC Official: http://alac.icann.org > > ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org > > > > > -- > >> Izumi Aizu << > > Institute for HyperNetwork Society > Kumon Center, Tama University > * * * * * > << Writing the Future of the History >> > www.anr.org > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/875 - Release Date: 6/27/2007 > 9:08 PM > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/875 - Release Date: 6/27/2007 > 9:08 PM > > > > _______________________________________________ > ALAC mailing list > ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > > At-Large Official Site: http://www.alac.icann.org > ALAC Independent: http://www.icannalac.org --

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Board Lision statemetns
by Jacqueline A. Morris June 28, 2007

June 28, 2007

In order to manage the recently reshuffled ICANN schedules, we will have the board liaison statements at 3:30 – 3:45 at the end of the IDN workshop just before the ALAC meeting starts. Sorry for the late notice, but the schedule today has been really flexing (meetings running late, panels shifting, etc) This should not affect too many of you as you were supposed to be going to the IDN panel anyway…. Jacqueline No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/875 - Release Date: 6/27/2007 9:08 PM

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